Act I (Chapters 1-5): Eddie arrives in Kotwa in March 1857. The village is small and peaceful: 2,000 people, a school, an inn, a temple, a church, a well. Miss Potter teaches at the school. Mrs. Ha...
**Act II (Chapters 6-15): Rebel forces approach Kotwa. Not an army — a movement. Thousands of angry people flowing toward the nearest British installation. Kotwa has no army. Eddie has 40 men: 20 British soldiers (young, scared, homesick) and 20 Indian sepoys (loyal but uncertain). He cannot fight a thousand angry people. He cannot surrender a village of 2,000 Indians to rebels who might kill...
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